Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Coastal South India: A 8-year retrospective study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare, benign condition of unknown etiology, presenting as cervical lymphadenitis. Lymphadenopathy is usually tender and maybe associated with systemic symptoms. Despite the extensive literature on this disease, it continues to be misdiagnosed owing to its misleading clinical presentation.

Methods

A retrospective hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in tertiary care hospitals from 2011 to 2019. All patients with confirmed KFD diagnosis were included and after ethics committee approval the clinical details and histopathological data was retrieved from the medical records department and analyzed.

Results

A total of 67 cases were included. The mean age was 26.9±11.3 years with a female: male ratio of

SUBMITTER: Achappa B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226704 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature